Yep! It’s difficult to believe, but it’s true. E-cig folks are now at the forefront of fighting government corruption and nanny-statism. Lots of folks have switched from tobacco use by going to e-cigarettes. These are alternatives to tobacco whereby there is a cigarette-looking thingy with a vaporizer in it, the user inhales vaporized glycerin and nicotine solution. It looks like smoke, but nothing is combusted. (I know… it sounds strange, but this is extraordinarily popular, and interest in it is growing daily around the world, especially in the US.)

Read about the inventor of these things, a fellow from China.

What is important in this case is that FDA is trying to ban these electronic devices without giving these “vapers” (as they call themselves) a fair hearing. There does appear to be some tobacco company shennanigans from Philip Morris company involved, too. So, I back these folks to get the fair hearing that they deserve as any American should, and fight “big tobacco”, too! After all, what could be more fun!

Click here for the leader in this fight: http://www.ecassoc.org/

If you are a smoker, well this could be an alternative. So, we ought not let the government ban these things unless they are found to be at least 1/10 as harmful as tobacco, which they are most likely certainly not.

This article was originally in the Wall Street Journal:

WASHINGTON, May 04, 2009 (BUSINESS WIRE) — Today the Electronic Cigarette Association (ECA) issued an official statement on its website – www.ecigaretteassociation.org – in response to the FDA’s recent inquiry into electronic cigarettes, many of which are being withheld from entering the country in what prominent harm reduction and policy experts are calling a potential public health disaster.